itscurtains | Week Six

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week 6

Week Six

[Last week, in It's Curtains, the weather changed, and with it your fortune in Dads. Discord took Salieri out - or perhaps Salieri took Discord out - and left the survivors with that much less impulse control. Nonetheless, a visit from a new friend might have provided a little bit of much-needed hope?

On Sunday morning, you'll find that the other side of the second floor has opened up - as well as the actual intended path to reach the roof garden. You can finally stop climbing up that rope every time you want to have a picnic or secret lover's rendezvous!

Outside, the weather seems to have calmed down. It's sunny again, with rather a lot of clouds. Though it's warm, the atmosphere seems very...still.]

Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday

(( Be sure to submit your memory regain and your AC for this week! As always, Hester's office hours and the merch booth remain available. ))

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[ She's been through this before. She knows what she'll do. She'll push those closest to her into doing things they don't want to. She'll insist she's doing it for the right reasons, even when all she's doing is being selfish. She'll lash out, and she'll hurt them, and she'll blindly wander down the wrong path until her mistakes get someone else killed.

She can't handle it again. Not another time. That's why Peregrine tries to run. That's why she tries to retreat, to withdraw from yet another person who loves her.

But Maya won't let her. ]

When you're used to alone,
When you're used to assuming that
No one else knows what you know—

[ One of her shaking hands cups Maya's cheek. ]

Someone's love feels impossibly good.
Someone's love feels like home.

[ Peregrine can't do this again. But she can't be alone, either. ]

[Maya has seen what it looks like when love is separated by now. She's seen the despair that Karen had fallen into. Perhaps, for that reason, Maya should fear only for herself, fear what would come to all of her passions if she gives in to this loss. But that isn't what drives her forward. It's the idea of Peregrine being alone, of bearing that weight of loss by herself, that pushes Maya onto this stage.]

I am
There　
By your side
Beyond these trees you and I will find our starlight.

Edited 2021-07-07 02:46 (UTC)

[ Only a few quiet moments pass before Peregrine presses a soft kiss to Maya's lips. She's been crying, she looks a mess, but still. ]

I love you.

And I love you, Peregrine Wells.

[Maya leans after her, returning the kiss.]

Never doubt it. And never forget to believe in the strength of this bond. It will hold us together, I promise.